Word

אֵילוֹן

ʼÊylôwn · H356 · Hebrew · proper noun · 7 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Place

Elonfirst named in Joshua 19:431 verse

Meanings

Elon

A man, the father of Basemath, wife of Esau

Examples
Genesis 26:34 When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Elon

Town or village; territory of Dan

Examples
Joshua 19:43 Elon, Timnah, and Ekron,
Elon

A man of the tribe of Zebulun who was a judge of Israel

Examples
Judges 12:11 Now Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel after him; he judged Israel for ten years.
Judges 12:12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 2 groups

זְבוּלֹנִיZebulunite 2
חִתִּיHittite 2

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מוּתto die 1
שָׁפַטto judge, to govern 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 1
מִשְׁפָּחָהclan, family 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּתdaughter 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of People003001007: אֵילוֹן is the personal name of more than one figure, including the Hittite father-in-law of Esau's wife Basemath.
Names of Locations003001010: The same form also names a location, reflecting the shared naming convention between a person and a place in this word family.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H356. Elon II. אֵלוֺן proper name, masculine (= id. compare אֵלָה proper name) 1 a son of…

H356. Elon
II. אֵלוֺן proper name, masculine (= id. compare אֵלָה proper name)
1 a son of Zebulun Gen 46:14; Num 26:26.
2 אֵילֹן Gen 26:34; אֵיִלוֺן Gen 36:2 a Hittite, father-in-law of Esau.
3 אֵילוֺן Jdg 12:11-12, a judge of Israel, of tribe of Zebulun
4. proper name, of a location אֵילוֺן Jos 19:43 a town of Dan; so 1Ki 4:9 (where read ׳א ח ׳וּבֵית Th Klo).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People4 occurrences Names of Locations1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0